Sex is determined by your genitalia at birth and gender is in your head, really. While there are generally two sexes besides those who are intersex (have some form of both kinds of genitalia), there are multiple different genders. You can self identify your gender, and to more fit it or feel more comfortable in ones body if you identity as one that you weren’t assigned with at birth, you are able to get different surgeries or go on HRTs to adjust it to your liking.

I could write more, but I’d rather not spark any argument by adding more details.

I think that there are two sexes. Male and female. And for gender, I really don’t care even if you identify as woman, man, agender, nonbinary, genderqueer and others. Just tell me your pronouns and your name and we are good fam. Nothing more.

Actually, science has been solidly on the side of “gender is a spectrum” for a long time now. Gender is also defined medically as related to, but separate from sex. Sex is a biological state of being male or female, whereas gender is an individual’s experiences on a spectrum which includes man and woman. Sex is about our bodies (or more specifically, the alignment between chromosomes, genitals, and hormones; defining it by chromosomes alone would be absurd because that’s not the judgment doctors use to assign sex at birth and not something anyone knows 100% without genetic testing, which is too expensive to give every infant). Gender, on the other hand, is more a mashup of biology, identity, and expression. Of course, gender may also have a genetic component; identical twins raised separately, for example, are more likely to both be transgender than two adopted children raised together. Twin studies aren’t perfect due to how rare identical twins are to begin with (creating a limited sample size), but it’s a good way to reveal a potential relationship.

That being said, sex is also a spectrum. Intersex people exist and are individually viable, though not typically reproductively so. Some would argue that they just have medical conditions, but these people are best respected as intersex because coerced medical interventions in infancy are more harmful than their conditions themselves (almost like we shouldn’t conduct surgery on peoples’ genitals without their explicit consent just so we can fit them into boxes we’re more comfortable with!). Also because, you know… they’ve asked us to respect them as such.

Anyone who’s progressed in their scientific education beyond high school biology class (which is intentionally oversimplified and outdated because they want everyone to pass) at least has some clue of the amount of nuance involved here. Claiming that gender is binary and biological dismisses the amount of complexity involved in humans, especially when even biology (and literally all organic matter in existence) has never functioned as a binary system. As for claims that nonbinary adults “confuse some children”, that has yet to be seen, though it hasn’t been formally studied to my knowledge. From what I’ve observed, children are actually more able and willing to accept transgender and nonbinary identities than a lot of adults. They’re not stupid; they can understand a lot more than you give them credit for.

Overall, regardless of what you believe, it costs you absolutely nothing to respect people for what they want to be called. So if you can’t acknowledge actual, up-to-date, nuanced science (or other cultures, since there are plenty all over the world that recognize more than two genders and have done so for centuries), please at least act like a decent person if you ever meet someone who is nonbinary.

I would argue that there are two sexes (intersex peeps are still one or the other genetically), and gender is something like sex plus society.
Males and females have obvious physical differences, of course, and they have some mental differences too, but those have greater variation.
There is a societal and cultural expectation for both men and woman, and someone who doesn’t quite fit into that or enjoys things associated with the other sex is not automatically in a new gender or transgender.
A girl who likes boy things or wears boy clothes is not a boy or something in between a boy and girl. A boy who likes girl things or wears girl clothes is not a girl or something in between a boy and a girl. Just because someone does not fit a stereotype, does not mean he is another gender. Individuality exists, folks.
Even the word ‘transgender’ implies going from one gender to another–not losing gender or creating a new one.
For this reason I do not believe there are any more than two genders. They just have a lot of variation, because everyone is unique, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Note: If you consider yourself of another gender, you do you. You can choose to interpret gender how you wish.
To me, it has very little actual meaning apart from biological sex and societal expectations.

In other news, I’m not really sure the existence of entire groups of people is an “opinion” that’s “up for debate”. We’re not talking ice cream flavors, here. These are peoples’ lives and regardless of what you think, this line of discourse does hurt people who are already subjected to constant invalidation.

For humans there is scientifically only 2 genders. I’m pretty sure there are 2 genders for every living species that we know of, although there are some animals that can switch from female to male when they please, which is confusing.

See my church believes that you are the gender you are born with , man and woman marry and date. Though we are told to at least be supportive of others because they are still gods children and yeah… also were arent followers if mormon so please stop calling us mormon